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Jurassic World is a 2015 American science fiction adventure film directed by Colin Trevorrow. It is the fourth instalment in the Jurassic Park film series. Read more

SUPERNOVA 2013en IN UGC 11369 = PSN J18513735+2338206 F. Ciabattari, E. Mazzoni, and M. Rossi, Borgo a Mozzano, Italy, report their discovery of an apparent supernova (mag 16.5) on unfiltered CCD images (limiting magnitude 19.5) obtained on July 30.98 UT with a 0.5-m Newtonian telescope in the co...

Title: ALMA Observations of the Largest Proto-Planetary Disk in the Orion Nebula, 114-426: A CO Silhouette Author: John Bally, Rita K. Mann, Josh Eisner, Sean M. Andrews, James Di Francesco, Meredith Hughes, Doug Johnstone, Brenda Matthews, Luca Ricci, Jonathan P. Williams We present ALMA obse...

The object designated 2003 VB12 was discovered with the Palomar 1.2-m Schmidt telescope on November 14, 2003 and has also been found on sky photographs taken in 2001 and 2002. Orbit computations show that the object's distance from the Sun varies between 76 and about 900 Astronomical Units. Its cur...

NGC 5584 (also MCG+00-37-001, UGC 9201, SDSS J142223.76-002315.6 and PGC 51344) is a magnitude =11.5 face-on spiral galaxy located ~73 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. The galaxy was discovered by American astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard using a 12.7 cm (5 inch) refracti...

Title: Alignments of Voids in the Cosmic Web Authors: Erwin Platen, Rien van de Weygaert, Bernard J.T. Jones We investigate the shapes and mutual alignment of voids in the large scale matter distribution of a LCDM cosmology simulation. The voids are identified using the novel WVF void finder techn...

Title: HAT-P-55b: A Hot Jupiter Transiting a Sun-like Star Author: D. Juncher (1,2), L. A. Buchhave (2,3), J. D. Hartman (4), G. A. Bakos (4), A. Bieryla (3), T. Kovács (4,5), I. Boisse (6), D. W. Latham (3), G. Kovács (5), W. Bhatti (4), Z. Csubry (4), K. Penev, (4), M. de Val-Borro (4), E. Falco (3), G. T...

Global Star Party on the 13th June 2015. Global Star Party - LIVE : Eastern Hemisphere Night Time Edition Spoiler

96 percent of vertebrates descended from common ancestor with 'sixth sense' Although humans experience the world through five senses, sharks, paddlefishes and certain other aquatic vertebrates have another sense: They can detect weak electrical fields in the water and use this information to...

John W. "Jack" King (April 1931 - June 11, 2015) was a Chief of Public Information and Public Affairs Officer for NASA. Read more

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The 26 - 58 metre wide asteroid 2015 KU154 will make a close pass (17.7 LD, 0.0455 AU) travelling at 6.73 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 13th June 2015 @ 06:48 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).

Orbital elements: 2012 FC71 Earth MOID = 0.0567 AU Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC M 144.67183 (2000.0) P Q n 1.00123715 Peri. 348.64489 +0.88606748 -0.46046940 a 0.9895660 Node 38.91653 +0.43168563 +0.77767160 e 0.0867339 Incl. 4.87706 +0.16891397 +0.42801263 P 0.98 H 25.4 G...

The 140 - 310 metre wide asteroid 1999 MN will make a close pass (40.3 Lunar Distances, 0.1036 AU), travelling at 18.58 km/s, to the Earth-Moon system on the 12th July, 2009. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance bet...

Comet 146P/Shoemaker-LINEAR is at Opposition (2.842 AU) in the constellation Scorpius on the 24th May 2015 EphemerisDate TT R. A. (2000) Decl. Delta r Elong. Phase Mag 2015 05 23 15 59 18.7 -25 52 57 2.8479 3.8568 174.5 1.4 23.1 2015 05 24 15 58 19.6 -25 53 42 2.8417 3.8510 174.7 1.4 23.1 2015 05 25 15 57...